Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-11-10
THE ANARCHISTS.

THE ANARCHISTS.
Rut Titt,e Hopc for the Condemned Mon
4 From Governor Oglcsby Tho Only Pos
sible Exceptions Petitions for Clemency
Multiplying ~ An Agitator Who Needs
Supervising.
LITTLE HOPE FROM THE GOVERNOR.
| CHICAGO, Nov. LA dispatch from
Springfield, Ill, says: The effect OF the
decision of the United States Supreme
Court has been largely discounted here
| by the firm reliance which the State capi-
tai feels in the Judgment and discretion Of
j the Attorney General. No one here be-
tilieves that Governor Oglesby will pardon
4 a single one of the condemned men. All
torney General Hunt knows that as well
as any of your correspondents, but II
would not be official decorum to say it
Tho weakness of the Governor is in his
great heart and gushing humanity. He
loves to give pardons. Nothing would
| please him more than to save q life by a.
just interposition of his prerogative. No
/ confidence is violated by saying that he
has no opinion that that prerogative per-
tains to this case, and while he has not de-
/ cided beforehand or closed the door to APP
| plications, he has got to see some new
4 light in this case before he will even stay
the execution by reprieve.
/ When Mr.. Cullom was Governor he In
i troduced, as wise precaution, rule that
| he would not hear an application for par
/ don except upon publication for three
/ weeks in local paper where the convic-
| ton had taken place. The Legislature
! enacted law to that effect. Three weeks
| do not exist between the date of the de-
NAL Of the writ by the United States SUI
preme Court and the day OF execution.
| The Governor may say that in such an
emergency he will not adhere to the law.
/ It is admitted that he may take this step,
| as the power to pardon, being constitu-
| tional one, it can not be limited or abro-
gated by statute. or the Governor may re-
| prieve for month so that proper appli-
| cation under the statute may be made to
him. He has not yet decided that point,
however, and perhaps that point has not
been raised, but it is very likely that should
the question be pressed on him he would
| grant the reprieve.
| HOW THEY VIEW THE SITUATION.
| LOUISVILLE, KY, Nov. Mrs. Emiline
| Wilson, who lives at Fioydsburgh, VIII
| lage near this city, is sister OF Governor
! Oglesby of Illinois,, and reached L0uis--
Vile last night in company with Mrs. v.
| p. Brandon, of Decatur, H., niece OF
Governor Oglesby, on her way home from
| a visit to her brother. The United Press
ShOSo
| that the family and relatives of Governor
| Oglesby are much concerned about the re
| sponsibility put upon the executive in the
present situation of the Anarchists cases,
| and for that matter the Governor himself
| is reported by them as being Sore
| " worried by the number of Lett
| tiers which have flooded him pray
| ing for executive clemency or threaten
| ing him unless he grants pardons, as
| fha al hat a ret 10 n
| on him to intercede in behalf of the con-
demned. Mrs. Wilson is seventy years
| old, and, though her brain is strong and
| clear, she is feeble and unable to travel
alone. 1t is understood from her that
! Governor Oglesby has fully resolved not
| to interfere with the sentence of the
courts, and she made an Intellectual effort
| to persuade her brother to come with her
| to his old home in Kentucky, and stay
until after the execution of the Anarch-
| lists. This the Governor refused to do,
| saying that he would stick it out.
THE ONLY POSSIBLE EXCEPTIONS.
| CHICAGO, Nov. 4-The following dis
| patch has been received from Springfield:
No petition in the due form of law has
yet been presented to the Governor in the
Anarchists case, and it is not supposed
| that any will be for day or two. 1t |
probable that the petitions will be brought
then be presented and very likely argued.
The Governors mail is increasing rapidly,
that of to-day being fully fifty per cent.
| larger than other days. The burden Of
this increase is matters of advice pro and
con to his Excellency on this case. No
| one here believes that any pardon will be
granted, and any combinations except
possibly in one or two instances. The
| fact that the prosecuting attorneys Office
/ at Chicago intimated some weeks ago
that that Office would not resist a propsi-
| ton to commute the sentence of Fielder
| and Schwab gives the impression to some
that such may be the result.
| PETITIONS FOR cLEMENCY MULTIPLYING.
CHICAGO, Nov. 5.-Petitions imploring
Governor Oglesby to exercise his high
prerogative in favor of the doomed
Anarchists are multiplying at rapid
rate. Among others yesterday q petition 3
| was drafted and put in circulation by 4
Rabbi E. G. Hirsch, the distinguished
Jewish divine, and received many sigma
lures. The following we'll known gentle-
men have signed petitions asking for com.
mutation of sentence: Ex-senator Lyman
Trumbull, Judge Moran. Merwin Hughitt,
president of the Chicago s. Northwestern
railroad; Lyman J. Gage, president of
the First National Bank; j. Z. Boysen,
QemaegRc candidate for State Attor-
ney. The Amnesty Association has Sc
cured the permission Of Mayor Roche to
place two tables at different points on the
streets in the center Of the city for people
to sign the petitions, and 1t is expected
| several thousand signatures will be OBJ
| tanned in this way.
SHOULD BE SUPPRESSED.
NEW YORK. Nov. at a crowded
meeting of the Socialist Labor party in
Germania assembly rooms last night, s.
E. Shevitch, editor of the Leader, made q
speech in which he said: "On Friday,
November II, the greatest crime and most
atrocious murder ever perpetrated is fixed
to take place in Chicago. But 1 tell you
il this crime of base murder is committed,
the end will soon follow. If these heroes
are hanged, the days of all those con.
cerned in the outrage will be reckoned,
and the day will not be far Off when they
will have to answer for the blood thew
shed by every spark of life in their worth.
less bodies loud cheers and cries skill
them" "dynamite."] But let them hang.
Seven mems lives will not harm u.s. Let
them kill seventy thousand, and out of
their graves seventy millions will arise.
tel you IL these men are hanged next
Friday something thousands of times
worse than our late civil war will follow.
We will not see it done without acting.0